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Given how many indie rock ensembles are crossing the border from Canada these days, you'd be forgiven for thinking that all the musicians in the country live within three blocks of one another.

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Longtime Modest Mouse fans -- a ragtag assemblage of college-rock lifers, jam-band nodders, and ahead-of-the-curve cool dads -- were likely taken aback by the success of 2004's 1.5 million-selling Good News for People Who Love Bad News. Here was a band whose lead singer, Isaac Brock, paired his serene guitar lines with a jarring, from-the-spleen growl.

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Last fall, when this London quartet announced they were going on tour with emo hatchlings Panic! At the Disco (they later had to cancel), loyal Blocheads around the world cried foul: What could these anguished art rockers possibly have in common with a bunch of overtheatrical mopes?

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Forget Port of Miami -- when it comes to tales of illicit sex, pillaging, and overall wanton behavior, Rick Ross has nothing on Colin Meloy.